Sentences with phrase «sea microbial mats»
Our ability to coordinate behavior and work collaboratively with others has allowed us to create the natural world's largest and most densely populated societies, outside of deep sea microbial mats and a few Hymenoptera mega-colonies.
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Today, microbial mats only occupy marginal habitats, but in the Precambrian era these photosynthetic communities of microorganisms dominated the beds of seas and lakes.
They will handle rare rock samples and examine deep - sea creatures pulled up from the depths, including crustaceans, bizarre tube worms and flocculent orange and yellow microbial mats.